On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
In which case why didn't we just push the changes with everything else? We must have seen some reason for them to keep out of the typography release... was there?
Yes. I brought this up publicly two weeks ago at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh#Latest_release and we've discussed it internally as an option since we started talking about release in core.
In retrospect, it was probably a mistake to include those features in the first place. From the start till now, I've heard pretty much universal agreement from the community that, even if they were welcomed by some, these felt like scope creep and confused users as to the nature of the typography refresh. I disagreed at the time when we launched them, since I think they're the kind of cleanup that helps improve legibility and put content first. But users don't really see it that way in a lot of cases. They expected a "typography refresh" to only include type changes.